Details

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

210 x 150 cm

Art Fund grant:

£1,500 ( Total: £5,000; Tax remission)

Acquired in:

1988

Vendor:

Phillips de Pury

In 1814, Raeburn became a Royal Academician, and in 1822 when George IV made his historic visit to Scotland, the artist was knighted. He died a year later, having achieved supremacy in Scotland as the foremost portraitist of his age.